consumptive

IPA: kʌnsˈʌmptɪv

Examples of "consumptive" in Sentences

He had the air of a man whom in the 19th century one would have called consumptive.
One of the finest weblogs has been morphing into a new shape: "consumptive is back. a lot simpler, a lot more blank."
His flushed face reminded me of the more beautiful kind of consumptivethat hectic beauty of which we used to hear so much.
His flushed face reminded me of the more beautiful kind of consumptive — that hectic beauty of which we used to hear so much.
His flushed face reminded me of the more beautiful kind of consumptive -- that hectic beauty of which we used to hear so much.
When Dave Harper's name was called the consumptive stepped forward and registered, and when the latter's name was called Dave stepped forward.
"IFAW is sceptical in general about the amount of benefits that every actually reach communities from so-called consumptive use of wild life, but in this instance a zero quota would mean zero sales and zero benefits," said Dr Maas.
It seems ironic that while America's founding fathers considered the following truth to be self-evident -- that all men are created equal -- American consumers are engaging in consumptive behaviour that suggests their abnormally high incomes are some kind of permanent right of citizenship.